BIO:  Edward D. ZIEGLER, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 59

EDWARD D. ZIEGLER is a son of Rev. Jacob Ziegler, of the borough of York.  His 
father is a minister of the Reformed Church; he is still living and has reached 
the ripe age of seventy-five years.  His mother is Anna Mary Danner, of York, 
and is still living.  Mr. Zeigler is a graduate of Pennsylvania College, located 
at Gettysburg, Penn., having graduated from that institution of learning in the 
year 1865.  Immediately upon leaving college he was employed by Dr. George W. 
Ruby, as assistant teacher in the York County Academy, in the borough of York.  
At this place he was employed in teaching for a period of three years, imparting 
instruction in the Latin language, in algebra, geometry, mathematics and English 
grammar.  During this time he prosecuted the study of the law under N. L. 
Fisher, Esq., and was admitted to the York County bar in November, 1868.  He was 
a candidate for and elected to the office of clerk of the county commissioners 
soon after his admission to the bar.  In this position he served during one term 
of two years.  At the expiration of his term of office he was honored, by the 
county commissioners of the county of York, by a unanimous election as their 
counsel, and was reappointed for a period of three years.  In June, 1880, he was 
a candidate before the Democratic county convention for the nomination for 
district attorney of the county.  He was nominated by the convention and elected 
by the people at the election following, and served in the office for three 
years.  He continued in the practice of his profession alone until 1885, when he 
associated himself in the practice of the law with Frank Geise and Joseph R. 
Strawbridge, Esqs.  From boyhood he was fond of politics, and there has been no 
campaign, county, State or national, in which he has not prominently figured.  
He has several times been elected delegate to State conventions of the 
Democratic party, and at the Allentown State convention, in the spring of 1884, 
was chosen as the delegate of the Nineteenth Congressional District to represent 
it in the national Democratic convention, which met in Chicago in July of the 
same year, and nominated Cleveland and Hendricks for president and vice-
president of the United States.